Seán Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
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Question 557: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason part-time teachers working in vocational education committee adult education courses who work on a non-guaranteed term contract and variable hourly paid basis with no pension scheme or rights and no holiday have had the pensions levy deducted from their salary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17644/09]

Seán Haughey (Dublin North Central, Fianna Fail)
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Vocational Education Committees (VECs) employ full-time and part-time staff basis to deliver various adult education courses and programmes. As the employer, it is the VECs which are responsible for the terms and conditions and other pay related issues of the staff they employ. Under Section 2 of the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Act 2009 a person is liable to pay the pensions-related deduction if he or she is a public servant on or after the 1 March 2009 and is a member of a public service pension scheme, is entitled to a benefit under the scheme or receives a payment in lieu of membership of such a scheme.